1907 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII

  Federal government

• Governor general – Albert Grey
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick
• Parliament – 10th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball then Lemuel John Tweedie
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

  Premiers

• Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
• Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie then William Pugsley then Clifford William Robinson
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow then Alexander Henderson
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

  Events

• March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
• May 24 – Boer War Memorial unveiled
• May 30 – Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
• May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
• August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
• September 7
• *An anti-Asian riot attacks Vancouver's Chinatown
• *Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
• September 14 – Jasper National Park established.

  Full date unknown

• The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
• The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
• The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

  Births

January to June

• January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician
• January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist
• February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer
• March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English
• March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec
• April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc.
• April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician

  July to December

• July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag
• August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
• August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
• September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician
• September 15 – Fay Wray, actress
• October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator
• November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician
• November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author

  Deaths

January to June

• January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician
• January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick
• January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's
• March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar
• March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician
• March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer
• April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet
• June 12 – John Waldie, politician

  July to December

• August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician
• September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician
• October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster
• October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer
• November 6 – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon

  Historical Documents